Leading performers and musical theater scholars from eight nations will gather virtually May 12-15 as the Great American Songbook Foundation hosts the Fourth Biennial StageStruck! Conference "Rethinking the Golden Age Musical," in which Broadway performers, authors, academics and archivists will celebrate the most treasured period in Broadway history–but take a critical approach to its troubled past. In this conference honoring the career of Kim Kowalke, Emeritus Professor at Rochester and the President of the Kurt Weill Foundation, we are thrilled to play host to scholars from across the globe, including Canada, Italy, Germany, Greece, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, South Korea and the US, as we take stock of existing scholarship on the Golden Age musical and explore ways forward. Visit TheSongbook.org/stagestruck2021 to learn more.
